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Chartists continued to be active in many parts of Wales into the 1850s, including in the woollen towns of mid-Wales. Llanidloes had been the scene of a disturbance on 30 April 1839; ...

Sheffield has many claims to fame, but perhaps one of the least well known is that the first-ever petition for women's suffrage came from the town in 1851, writes Matthew Roberts ...

The name ‘Chartists’ comes from the People’s Charter of 1838. This was a document detailing the six key points that the Chartists believed to be necessary in order to introduce a fair ...

Last week, a 35-metre-long mosaic mural of the 1839 Chartist uprising in Newport, Wales, ... Other uprisings were also planned in Sheffield, the East End of London and Bradford.

IN ITV’S Victoria, the working-class movement Chartism rocks the country as the demand for political reform reached its peak in the 17th century. We explain what Chartism was, how long it lasted ...

Concomitant with the industrial expansion experienced by Sheffield in the 19th Century was an increase in Sheffield's population. In the 1851 census, Sheffield's population was recorded at 135,000 ...

Politician and activist John Frost led a march of 3,000 Chartists - a working-class movement advocating for voting reform - into the centre of Newport on November 4, 1839.

Leaders and Followers in a Chartist Locality, 1838-1848, Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 179-203 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and organize ...

Chartism was a movement for democratic rights, started in London in 1838 with the publication of the 'People's Charter'. The Charter demanded the reform of parliament. At that time very few people ...